Business Ethics: Big Data and Tax Avoidance
Discover the business challenges posed by big data and tax avoidance and explore their ethical complexity with this online course from the University of Leeds.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested in exploring two of the biggest business ethics problems.
The course will be useful for professionals working in small or larger organisations but also for anyone studying business or ethics at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
What topics will you cover?
Explain what ‘big data’ is and give examples of its use.
Identify situations in which their own personal data is being collected by commercial organisations.
Outline the potential benefits for consumers that arise from the collection, storage and use of personal data by commercial organisations.
Outline the potential ethical issues that arise from the collection, storage and use of personal data by commercial organisations.
Explain the difference between tax avoidance, tax evasion and tax planning.
Give examples of tax avoidance practices.
Recognise the limits of moral relativism in ethical discourse.
Outline the key arguments in defence of tax avoidance practices by commercial organisations.
Outline the key arguments against tax avoidance practices by commercial organisations.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Explore the ethical complexities of business practices.
Explain the limits of legal regulation in determining the ethical course of action within business.
Debate the ethics of business practices around big data and tax avoidance.
Critically evaluate your own opinions about the ethics of business.
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